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All-Normal-Dispersion Photonic Crystal Fibers Under Prism of Supercontinuum Generation and Pulse Compression

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We discuss properties of all-normal-dispersion photonic crystal fibers in context of supercontinuum generation and compression of ultrashort pulses. The application of pump pulses typical for the state of the art Ti:Sapphire lasers allows obtaining quite flat and broad spectra extending more than one octave in this fiber. The influence of initial pump pulse parameters such as pulse energy, duration, and pump wavelength on the SC generation was investigated. It was shown that compression of pulses with such SC spectra allows obtaining a few cycle pulses up to 8.1 fs, if a simple quadratic compressor is used and single cycle pulses up to 2.5 fs, if full phase compensation is provided.

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This work was supported by Universidad de Guanajuato under projects DAIP-633/2015, DAIP-609/2015, and DAIP-430/2014, by FoMix (CONACyT & CONCyTEG) under project GTO-2012-C04-195229, and in part by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad under project TEC-2013-46643-C2-1-R, and the Generalitat Valenciana under project PROMETEO II/2014/072.

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    Igor A. Sukhoivanov, Oleksiy V. Shulika, José Amparo Andrade Lucio & Oscar G. Ibarra Manzano

  2. Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, Kharkiv, Ukraine

    Sergii O. Iakushev

  3. University of Valencia, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain

    Antonio Diez & Miguel V. Andrés

  4. Departamento de Estudios Multidisciplinarios, DICIS, Universidad de Guanajuato, Salamanca, México

    Igor V. Guryev

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Sukhoivanov, I.A. et al. (2016). All-Normal-Dispersion Photonic Crystal Fibers Under Prism of Supercontinuum Generation and Pulse Compression. In: Shulika, O., Sukhoivanov, I. (eds) Contemporary Optoelectronics. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 199. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7315-7_13

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